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This is a project that looks beyond the scale of an individual building, cluster or campus, to create a coherent piece of the city. The goal has been to learn from the past to build a contemporary place that can stand the test of time and to support Qatar’s transition to a post-oil economy by creating an attractive urban core that can be a magnet for both local and international visitors, residents and companies. Rare has a project of such scale and ambition – from masterplan concept to execution in detail – been built in the recent history of architecture. The project, which was conceived under the leadership of Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, aspires to offer an alternative form of urban living in a region that has often opted for hastier forms of urban expansion.
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Updated: 22 Apr 2021, 19:55
A GETAWAY driver for a burglary gang that brought “terror” as they preyed on elderly and vulnerable people was jailed today for 12 years.
John Faulkner, of Adelaide Place, St Luke’s, Cork city, claimed he was dropping off his pals to visit friends, but gardai testified that the men who exited his car tried to break into the rural home of a couple in their 80s near Charleville, north Co Cork.
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Judge Sean O’Donnabhain said people like Faulkner had forced pensioners into lockdown long before the pandemic struck
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Getaway driver Faulkner appeared before the Circuit Criminal Court in Cork this weekCredit: Google Streetview
A Wexford priest broke down in tears yesterday (Monday) describing the heartbreak of seeing grandchildren locked outside his church due to draconian restrictions, virtually unheard of anywhere else in Europe.
Fr Gerry O Leary has celebrated nine funerals since the third lockdown began on St Stephen s Day and says it is causing him incredible stress whenever he has to inform a family that only ten people can attend the ceremony inside his church doors. There is no one size fits all when it comes to funerals. I ve had nine since the third lockdown started and we have kept to the ten every time. I can see families are being very badly affected by the restrictions, Fr O Leary said.